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North Africa: Reform, Development And Islamism (September 14, 2007)
William Lawrence
Maghreb and Islamic Affairs, Office of Science and Technology Cooperation,
State Department
Reinhold Brender
Political Counselor, Delegation of the European Commission to the US
David S. Sorenson
Professor of National Security, Air War College, Maxwell Airforce Base
John Entelis
Professor of Political Science, Director, Middle East Studies Program,
Fordham University
I. William Zartman
Jacob Blaustein Distinguished Professor of International Organizations
and Conflict Resolution, SAIS
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The Future of the Middle East:
Strategic Implications for the United States (June 26, 2007)
F. Gregory Gause
Political Science Professor, University Of Vermont
Fareed Mohamedi
Partner, Head Of Markets And Country Strategies And Practice, PFC Energy
Afshin Molavi
Fellow, New America Foundation
Wayne White
Former Deputy Director, Near East And South Asia Office, INR, State Department
Anthony Cordesman
Arleigh A. Burke Chair In Strategy, CSIS
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When We Meet with Syria, What Should We Say?
What Should We Hope to Hear? (April 10, 2007)
Theodore Kattouf
President, CEO, Amideast
Martha Neff Kessler
Consultant, CIA (ret)
Hisham Melhem
Washington Bureau News Chief, Al Arabiya
Murhaf Jouejati
Professor, NESA, Center For Strategic Studies,
National Defense University, Former Defense Intelligence Officer, Middle East
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Iraq, Iran, Israel And The Eclipse of U.S. Influence:
What Role For America Now? (January 19, 2007)
Anatol Lieven
Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation
Wayne White
Former Deputy Director, Near East and South Asia office,
Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
Kenneth Katzman
Congressional Research Service
W. Patrick Lang
Former Defense Intelligence Officer, Middle East
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Are We Trapped in the War on Terror? (November 3, 2006)
Ian Lustick
Bess W. Heyman Chair Political Science, University of Pennsylvania;
Author, "Trapped in the War on Terror"
Ivan Eland
Senior Fellow, Independent Institute
Rand Beers
Former Member, National Security Council (1988-1998)
Edward Luttwak
Senior Fellow, CSIS
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Middle Eastern Views of the U.S: What Do the Trends Indicate? (July 20, 2006)
Shibley Telhami
Sadat Chair, Univeristy of Maryland; Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Brian Katulis
Director of Democracy and Public Diplomacy, Center for American Progress
Jon Alterman
Director and Senior Fellow, Middle East Program, CSIS
Milton Viorst
Author, Storm from the East
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Is There a Responsible Exit from the Strategic Ambush in Iraq? (April 21, 2006)
Thomas R. Mattair
Consultant to government and business
Lawrence J. Korb
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Barry R. Posen
Ford International Professor of Political Science, Security Studies Program
Center for International Studies, M.I.T.
Gareth Porter
Independent historian and foreign policy analyst
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How Can the U.S. Re-Open for Business to the Arab World? (April 7, 2006)
Edward M. Graham
Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics
James Andrew Lewis
Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Don N. De Marino
Chairman, National US-Arab Chamber of Commerce
William A. Reinsch
President, National Foreign Trade Council
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Saudi Arabia's Accession to the WTO: Is a 'Revolution' Brewing? (January 13, 2006)
William Clatanoff
Former Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Labor
C. Christopher Parlin
Partner, Loeffler Tuggey Rosenthal, LLP
Robert Jordan
Former Abassador to Saudi Arabia; Partner, Baker Botts LLP
Charles Kestenbaum
Former Regional Director, U.S. Dept. of Commerce
Jean-Francois Seznec
Adjunct Professor, Columbia University's Middle East Institute
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A Shia Crescent: What Fallout for the U.S.? (October 14, 2005)
Juan Cole
Professor of History, University of Michigan
Kenneth Katzman
Specialist in Middle East Affairs, Congressional Research Service
Karim Sadjadpour
Analyst, International Crisis Group
Ray Takeyh
Senior Fellow, Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
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Occupied Iraq: One Country, Many Wars (June 17, 2005)
Ivan Eland
Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace and Liberty, the Independent Institute; Assistant Editor, the Independent Review
Robert Newman
Colonel, U.S. Army
Jeffrey White
Berrie Defense Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
W. Patrick Lang
Global Resources Group INC.; Formerly the Defense Intelligence Officer for the Middle East
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Democracy: Rising Tide or Mirage? (April 22, 2005)
Marina S. Ottaway
Senior Associate, Democracy and Rule of Law Project, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Jillian Schwedler
Assistant Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland; Chair, Middle East Research and Information Project
Shibley Telhami
Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development, University of Maryland; Senior Fellow, Saban Center, Brookings Institution
Saad Eddin Ibrahim
Professor of Political Sociology, American University of Cairo; Chairman, Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies
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Iraq, Afghanistan, and the War on Terror (January 11, 2005)
Daniel Byman
Assistant Professor, Security Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution; author of Deadly Dynamics: States that Sponsor Terrorism (forthcoming in 2005)
W. Patrick Lang
President, Global Resources Group, Inc.; formerly the Defense Intelligence Officer for the Middle East
Anatol Lieven
Senior Associate for Foreign and Security Policy, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; author of America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism
Michael Scheuer
Former Chief, Bin Laden unit, Counterterrorist Center, CIA; author (as "Anonymous") of Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror, and Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America
Securing U.S. Energy in a Changing World (September 17, 2004)
Frank A. Verrastro
Director, Energy Program, Center for International and Strategic Studies
James A. Placke
Senior Associate, Cambridge Energy Resource Associates
Alan S. Hegburg
Senior Fellow, Energy Program, Center for International and Strategic Studies
The Geneva Proposals for Peace: Still Viable? (April 15, 2004)
Ziad J. Asali
President, American Task Force on Palestine
Marshall Breger
Professor, Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America
Milton Viorst
Author, What Shall I Do With This People? Jews and the Fractious Politics of Judaism
Philip C. Wilcox, Jr.
President, Foundation for Middle East Peace
Saudi Arabia: Enemy or Friend? (January 23, 2004)
David Aufhauser
Former General Counsel, Department of the Treasury
Frank Anderson
Former Chief, Near East and South Asia Division, CIA
David E. Long
Retired U.S. Foreign Service Officer -- Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Morocco and Jordan
Nathaniel Kern
President, Foreign Reports, Inc.
Hussein Shobokshi
President, Shobokshi Development & Trading; Manager Okaz Printing & Publishing
Imperial Dreams: Can the Middle East Be Transformed? (October 3, 2003)
Kenneth Pollack
Director of Research, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution
W. Patrick Lang
President, Global Resources Group, Inc.; formerly the Defense Intelligence Officer for the Middle East
Amy Hawthorne
Associate, Democracy and Rule of Law Project, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Philip C. Wilcox, Jr.
President, Foundation for Middle East Peace
Aftershocks of War: What Purposes Have Been Fulfilled? (June 20, 2003)
Judith Yaphe
Senior Research Fellow for the Middle East, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University
Kenneth Katzman
Middle East Affairs Specialist, Congressional Research Service
Omer Taspinar
Visiting Fellow in Foreign Polciy Studies, Brookings Institution; Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins University, SAIS
Martha Neff Kessler
Consultant; CIA (Ret.)
Is a Two-State Solution Still Viable? (April 11, 2003)
Stephen P. Cohen
National Scholar, Israel Policy Forum; President, Institute for Middle East Peace and Development
Michael C. Hudson
Professor of Arab Studies and International Relations, Georgetown University
Nathan Guttman
Washington Correspondent, Haaretz
Khalil E. Jahshan
Executive Vice President, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
In the Wake of War: Geo-strategy, Terrorism, Oil Markets, and Domestic Politics (January 10, 2003)
Leon T. Hadar
Research Fellow, Cato Institute; Washington correspondent, Straits Times, Singapore
Frank Anderson
Former Chief, Near East and South Asia Division, CIA
Fareed Mohamedi
Chief Economist, The Petroleum Finance Company Ltd.
Ian S. Lustick
Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
War with Iraq: A Cost-Benefit Analysis (October 9, 2002)
Anthony H. Cordesman
Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Joseph C. Wilson
Former U.S. Chargé d'Affaires, Baghdad; Strategic Advisor, Rock Creek Corporation
Ray Takeyh
Fellow in International Security Studies, Yale University
Geoffrey Kemp
Director of Regional Strategic Programs, The Nixon Center
The Abdullah Peace Plan: Offer or Ultimatum? (June 14, 2002)
Mamoun Fandy
Professor of Politics, Near East-South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University
Edward S. Walker
Former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; President, Middle East Institute
Ofer Grosbard
Clinical psychologist; Author of "Israel on the Couch - The Psychology of the Peace Process"
Michael C. Hudson
Professor of Arab Studies and International Relations, Georgetown University
Is Unilateral Withdrawal the Answer for Israel? (March 22, 2002)
Stephen P. Cohen
National Scholar, Israel Policy Forum; President, Institute for Middle East Peace and Development
Yoram Peri
Professor of Political Sociologoy and Communication, Hebrew University in Jerusalem; Senior Fellow, USIP
Shibley Telhami
Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development, University of Maryland; Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute
David E. Long
Retired U.S. Foreign Service Officer Sudan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Jordan
The United States and Saudi Arabia: American Interests and Challenges to the Kingdom in 2002 (January 9, 2002)
Joseph McMillan
Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University
Anthony H. Cordesman
Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Mamoun Fandy
Professor of Politics, Near East-South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University
Fareed Mohamedi
Chief Economist, The Petroleum Finance Company Ltd.
Negotiating Middle East Peace: Can the Past be a Guide to the Future? (September 20, 2001)
Edward S. Walker, Jr.
Former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; President, Middle East Institute
Khalil E. Jahshan
Vice-President, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Yossi Shain
Visiting Professor of Government, Georgetown University
Ivan Eland
Director of Defense Policy Studies, Cato Institute
Lebanon and Syria: Internal and Regional Dimensions (May 23, 2001)
Martha Neff Kessler
Former CIA Officer
George Emile Irani
Professor, Conflict Analysis and Management, Royal Roads University, Victoria, British Columbia
Peter Gubser
President, American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA)
With the "Process" Dead, What are the Prospects for Peace? (March 8, 2001)
W. Patrick Lang
Formerly the Defense Intelligence Officer for the Middle East
Christopher Ross
Formerly the U.S. Ambassador to Syria
Shibley Telhami
Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development, University of Maryland
U.S. Policy Toward Iran: Time for a Change? (December 12, 2000)
Richard Allan Roth
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs
Suzanne Maloney
Research Associate, The Brookings Institution
Ray Takeyh
Soref Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Geoffrey Kemp
Director of Regional Strategic Programs, The Nixon Center
The Caspian Region and the New Great Powers (September 15, 2000)
David L. Goldwyn
Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Department of Energy
Martha Brill Olcott
Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Julia Nanay
Director, Petroleum Finance Company
Thomas R. Stauffer
International Energy Consultant
The Peace beyond the Peace: What Role for Iran and Iraq? (May 4, 2000)
David Wurmser
Research Fellow, Middle East, American Enterprise Institute
Ted Galen Carpenter
Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute
Edward Peck
Former U.S. Chief of Mission in Iraq
Graham Fuller
Resident Consultant, RAND Corporation
Joining the Global Rules-based Economy: Challenges and Opportunities for the GCC (February 1, 2000)
Cecilia Klein
WTO Accessions, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
Abdelali Jbili
Assistant Director, Middle East Department, International Monetary Fund
Kevin R. Taecker
Globalization Consultant, Enterprise -- Saudi Arabia
Shafeeq Ghabra
Director Kuwait Information Office
American Muslims and U.S. Foreign Policy (September 14, 1999)
Richard H. Curtiss
Executive Editor, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
Abdurahman Alamoudi
President, American Muslim Foundation
Jameel W. A-Johnson
Chief of Staff, Office of U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY)
Hesham Reda
President, Muslim Public Affairs Council
Policy Implications of the Price of Oil (March 30, 1999)
Robert R. Copaken
Senior Middle East Energy Analyst, U.S. Department of Energy
Geoffrey Kemp
Director, Regional Strategic Programs, Nixon Center
Jim Steenhagen
Managing Director, Executive Services Group, The Petroleum Finance Company
Nathaniel Kern
President, Foreign Reports, Inc.
After Saddam, What Then for Iraq? (January 28, 1999)
Ellen Laipson
Vice Chairman, National Intelligence Council
Patrick L. Clawson
Director for Research, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Andrew Parasiliti
Director of Programs, Middle East Institute
Rend Rahim Francke
Executive Director, Iraq Foundation
What Are the Costs of No Peace? (October 2, 1998)
Robert H. Pelletreau
former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
Mamoun Fandy
Research Professor, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University
Ian S. Lustick
Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Martin S. Indyk
Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
U.S. Gulf Policy: How Can it Be Fixed? (April 22, 1998)
Joseph Marty
Director for Near East and South Asia, National Security Council
Ivan Eland
Director of Defense Policy Studies, CATO Institute
Shibley Telhami
Anwar Sadat Chair for Population, Development and Peace, University of Maryland
Dov Zackheim
CEO, Systems Planning Corporation
"Caspian Oil: Pipelines and Politics" (September 25, 1997)
S. Frederick Starr
Chairman, Central Asia Institute, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Thomas R. Stauffer
Consultant; former professor at Harvard and Georgetown universities
Julia Nanay
Director, Petroleum Finance Company
"The Challenge in the Gulf: Building a Bridge from Containment to Stability" (March 5, 1997)
Robert S. Deutsch
Director, Office of Northern Gulf Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Anthony H. Cordesman
Co-Director, Middle East Program,Center for Strategic and International Studies
Hervé Magro
First Secretary, Embassy of France
William A. Rugh
President, AMIDEAST; former U.S. ambassador to the U.A.E.
Michael Collins Dunn
Senior Analyst, The International Estimate, Inc.
"Arab-Israeli Peace and U.S. Interests: Second-Term Imperatives" (November 21, 1996)
Aaron David Miller
Deputy Special Middle East Coordinator, U.S. Department of State
David Mack
Senior Counselor, C&O Resources; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
Alon Ben-Meir
Adjunct Professor, New York University; Columnist, Christian Science Monitor
Jim Zogby
President, Arab-American Institute
"Political Islam: Can It Become a Loyal Opposition?" (May 14, 1996)
David Satterfield
Director of Near East and South Asian Affairs, National Security Council
Mumtaz Ahmad
Professor of Political Science, Hampton University
I. William Zartman
Jacob Blaustein Professor of International Organization and Conflict Management Resolution, Dir. of African Studies and Conflict Management Programs, Johns Hopkins University CAIS
"U.S. Development Assistance to the Middle East: Critical Perspectives" (February 27, 1996)
Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-IN)
Ranking Member, House International Relations Committee
Mr. H. Brian Atwood
Administator, The Agency for International Development
Dr. Sara Roy
Harvard University Middle East Center
Dr. Peter Gubser
President, American Near East Refugee Aid
"Contemporary Oman and U.S.-Oman Relations" (October 12, 1995)
Hon. Robert Pelletreau
Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs
Ms. Georgie Anne Geyer
Columnist, Universal Press Syndicate
Mr. John Page
Senior Economist, World Bank, Middle East and North Africa Region
Dr. Michael Collins Dunn
Senior Analyst, The International Estimate, Inc.
Dr. Christine Eickelman
Visiting Scholar, Anthropology, Dartmouth College
Dr. Joseph Kechichian
Senior Analyst, RAND Corporation
"U.S. Policy Toward Iran: From Containment to Relentless Pursuit" (May 25, 1995)
Ellen Laipson
Director of Near East and South Asian Affairs, National Security Council
Gary Sick
Director, Gulf 2000 Project; Adjunct Professor, Columbia University
Richard Cottam
University Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh
"Re-examining the Arab-Israeli Peace Process" (March 9, 1995)
David Satterfield
Director of Near Eastern & South Asian Affairs, National Security Council
James Zogby
President, Arab-American Institute
Ian Lustick
Richard L. Simon Professor of Social Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
"Persian/Arabian Gulf Security and U.S. Policy" (December 7, 1994)
The Honorable William J. Perry
U.S. Secretary of Defense
"The Peace Process and Beyond - An address by H.R.H. Crown Prince El Hassan Bin Talal of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan" (September 26, 1994)
H.E. Dr. Jawad Anani
Minister of State for Prime Ministry Affairs
"The Middle East: What is Our Long-Term Vision?" (September 23, 1994)
Bruce Riedel
National Intelligence Officer for Near East & South Asia, National Intelligence Council
William Quandt
Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia
Richard Falk
Professor of International Law and Practice, Princeton University
"Resurgent Islam in the Middle East" (May 26, 1994)
Robert H. Pelletreau, Jr.
Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs
Daniel Pipes
Editor, Middle East Quarterly
John Esposito
Director, The Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University
"Dual Containment: U.S. Policy Toward Iraq and Iran" (February 24, 1994)
Martin Indyk
Special Assistant to the President, National Security Council
Graham Fuller
Senior Analyst, Rand Corporation
Phebe Marr
Senior Fellow, National Defense University
Anthony Cordesman
Professor of National Security Studies, Georgetown University
"Where To Go From Here: Practical Steps to Ensure Success in Israeli-Palestinian Peacemaking" (November 10, 1993)
The Hon. Mark Hatfield
U.S. Senator (R-OR)
Amb. Dennis Ross
Special Middle East Coordinator, U.S. Department of State
Mr. Caio Koch-Weser
Vice President, Middle East and North Africa, World Bank
Dr. Mohamed Rabie
President, Center for Educational Development
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